Yeah, steemit is not a get rich place. Its a social media site where you can get paid some for your efforts. While there may or may not be some funny business associated with the trending page, many people who receive big rewards are those who have been here for a long time, and have built up a following. Its like with youtube, those who have been at it for a long long time, and have garnered large subscriber bases can earn extrordinary sums of money for each video they post (some thousands, some tens of thousands). People aren't signing up for youtube accounts assuming that they will get rich from posting a few videos, and they shouldn't be signing up for steemit assuming the same thing. Networking takes time, building a following takes (A LOT of ) time. You are right, we need to give people realistic expectations for what they can achieve here as they start out, but they also DO need to see that if they put in the effort, extraordinary success is also possible here. Just as it is at youtube or other monetized sites.
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I couldn't agree more. Great statement, @justtryme90!
YouTube is a good example, however I believe that people who join steemit have even higher economical expectations than the ones that start vlogging on YouTube. Producing video content is still much more time-consuming than writing a short blog post. Especially when seeing that the mentioned established steemians even get their $100+ for simply sharing a link. From the outside it must look incredibly easy to succeed here.
It's a simple step of education to warmly welcome these 809 daily new subcribers and say "Hey! Cool that you are here, but there are a few things you should know about." steemit is brand new and complex - it needs more communication than other platforms.
Again, thanks for taking the time and stopping by!